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Colored — Col ored, a. 1. Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained. [1913 Webster] The lime rod, colored as the glede. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] The colored rainbow arched wide. Spenser. [1913 Webster] 2. Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
-colored — [ kʌlərd ] suffix used with some adjectives and nouns to make adjectives describing what color something is: a dark colored skirt a building made of tan colored stone … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
colored — [adj1] not white dyed, flushed, glowing, hued, shaded, stained, tinged, tinted, washed; concept 618 Ant. white colored [adj2] distorted angled, biased, false, falsified, jaundiced, misrepresented, one sided, partial, partisan, perverted,… … New thesaurus
colored — [kul′ərd] adj. 1. having color 2. of a (specified) color 3. of a group other than the Caucasoid 4. Old fashioned BLACK (adj. 2b) 5. [C ] in South Africa, of racially mixed parentage: in this sense, usually Coloured … English World dictionary
colored — late 14c., pp. adj.; in reference to non white skin, 1610s; pp. adj. from COLOR (Cf. color) … Etymology dictionary
colored — I noun a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive • Syn: ↑colored person • Usage Domain: ↑archaism, ↑archaicism • Hypernyms: ↑Black, ↑Black person … Useful english dictionary
Colored — This article is about a term used for black people like African Americans. For the term used to describe an ethnic group in Southern Africa see Coloured. For other uses see Color (disambiguation). For the dc Talk song, see Colored People (song).… … Wikipedia
colored — col|ored1 [ kʌlərd ] adjective * 1. ) usually before noun red, green, blue, etc. rather than transparent or black or white: colored glass pieces of colored paper brightly colored: a woman wearing a brightly colored dress 2. ) colored hair has… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
colored — /kul euhrd/, adj. 1. having color. 2. Often Offensive. belonging wholly or in part to a race other than the white, esp. to the black race. 3. Often Offensive. pertaining to the black race. 4. influenced or biased: colored opinions. 5. specious;… … Universalium
Colored — Color Col or, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Colored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Coloring}.] [F. colorer.] 1. To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain. [1913 Webster] The rays, to speak… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
